The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 11th October 2022

There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 11th October 2022. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Mother hosting police ball is upset? Just a bit
AAcross 5:	Approaching a road in roughly two seconds
AAcross 9:	Who's keen to play Partridge Queen?
AAcross 10:	Casual member wants back pay
AAcross 11:	Slough has one trapped, progress hampered?	BOGGEDDOWN
AAcross 12:	See 6
AAcross 14:	Failure, for example, of NBC broadcast with astronaut	ABSTRACTNOUN
AAcross 18:	Harrowing neck torture
AAcross 21:	See 6
AAcross 22:	Beach merging with delta may be cut off
AAcross 25:	Sea child's most important problem?	MAINISSUE
AAcross 26:	Poet's lower than 'the man sadly emasculated'
AAcross 27:	Under arrest and looking haggard
AAcross 28:	Machine operator altered shift
DDown 1:	Face Lincoln as a former leader	MUGABE
DDown 2:	Mother, get on ruin!
DDown 3:	Hackneyed stuff by journalist with complaint — probably canned
DDown 4:	Transport was miserable
DDown 5:	'Reversion' cast and support
DDown 5:	'Reversion' cast and support
DDown 6:	Proudly accompanying the ambassador on a date, kept getting excited?
DDown 7:	Drink downstairs? Nonsense, according to a shanty singer
DDown 8:	Screeching of small missile
DDown 13:	Misspelt the Genoese name for an eastern monument
DDown 15:	Crossed a playwright with a paper figure
DDown 16:	East Hampton otherwise now known as famous	ONTHEMAP
DDown 17:	That's an awful lot of birdsong on island first
DDown 19:	Ace management team on a ship
DDown 20:	Nerdy expert element of Aztec hierarchy
DDown 23:	Vigilant prince consort ditches bishop
DDown 24:	See 6